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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Movement.
(c) Sound.
(d) Footwear.

2. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?
(a) The fifth and sixth.
(b) The second and fourth.
(c) The first and third.
(d) The first and sixth.

3. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) The burden of social expectations.
(b) Their reaction to the cold.
(c) The motion of their bodies.
(d) Their determination.

4. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Personification.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Simile.

5. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?
(a) Prejudice, indifference, and suffering.
(b) Circumstance, poverty, and innocence.
(c) Punishment, corruption, and justice.
(d) Heaven, purity, and nature.

6. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(b) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.
(c) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.
(d) Elaborate shoes with high heels.

7. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

8. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?
(a) Reflections.
(b) Streetlights.
(c) Headlights.
(d) Dawn.

9. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) Cowardice and fear.
(b) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(c) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(d) A hidden character flaw.

10. Which lines of each stanza are indented?
(a) The second and fourth.
(b) The first and third.
(c) The fifth and sixth.
(d) The first and sixth.

11. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(b) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(c) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."
(d) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."

12. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Aching.
(b) Prideful.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Sacred.

13. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) White.

14. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Asyndeton and euphony.
(b) Personification and asyndeton.
(c) Euphony and alliteration.
(d) Alliteration and personification.

15. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Bystanders.
(c) Clients.
(d) Pimps.

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